Monday, 1 September 2008

Green gold

Between my beer reviews (or beer tastings if you will) I'd like to bring you some information about beer in general.

Recently a member of hop processing conglomerate Barth Haas Group, namely Joh. Barth&Sohn GmbH has published a yearly report on beer (first report was published in 1877).

The key findings are as follows:- world beer production has increased from 1,696,459hl (2006) to 1,787,415hl (2007)- Poland is in top 5 Europe and top 10 World (that is my key finding)- crop year 2007 will be remembered as turbo boom year- year 2007 = scarsity of hops and exorbitant prices- area under hop cultivation has increased to 50659 ha- Pareto principle proves itself once again, 20 countries make up 80% of total beeer production

Below you will find the Europe TOP 5 and World TOP 10 in beer production.